Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No longer is the maximum grant €10,000 - it has been reduced by 25%. Every application requires an occupational therapist, OT, report, placing further costs on the applicant. The people availing of these grants do not have discretionary funds. They do not have the €200 or €300 needed to pay for OT reports. What was wrong with a family doctor writing a medical report to the effect that a person whose leg had been amputated needed a level access shower? That should be black and white. Why would an OT report be necessary in that case? What was wrong with a general practitioner, GP, writing that a cancer patient who only had eight or nine months to live could benefit from home modifications? Why was this scheme changed unnecessarily? It was changed in a sly, underhanded way to try to prevent people-----

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